Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reality of the occupation problem was being driven home to them in a thousand little failures. Americans were losing face, Germans recovering their arrogance. They sometimes spoke to U.S. officers with their hands in their pockets, a sign of gross disrespect in Germany. They openly mocked the G.I.'s kidding, gum-chewing, easygoing ways. Former Hitler Youth even joined "Resistance Clubs" to fight the foreigners...
...fourth and biggest packing company purchase in three years, made it the West Coast's biggest food-processing company. It has 16 canning plants (employing some 10,000 packers at peak season), about 70 products (including tomato sauce, canned fruits, vegetables and jellies, frozen foods), expects to gross at least $35,000,000 a year...
...time this flurry of announcements had died, Lockheed's smart, shy 48-year-old President Robert E. Gross had firm orders on the books for $68,000,000 worth of Constellations, largest single block of commercial orders in aviation history. With this fat backlog, Lockheed moved into Planemaker Donald W. Douglas' place as the No. 1 U.S. commercial plane builder. In one hop, the four-motored, 51 passenger Constellation had carried Lockheed to the top of the heap...
...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
...auto industry stretched and soared, so did Hyatt. By 1916 Hyatt had a gross capacity of $10,000,000 worth of bearings a year. But A. P. Sloan was worried. His biggest customer was General Motors, which brilliant, mercurial William Crapo Durant had put together by merging a number of auto companies several years before. What if G.M. should decide to make its own bearings? So when Billy Durant offered to buy Hyatt, Sloan jumped at the chance, sold out to Billy Durant for $13,500,000. At 41, with $5,000,000 in his pocket, he might have retired...